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Champions League: Who are the best players never to win the competition?

The Champions League is undoubtedly the greatest prize in club football. To many, it even rivals the World Cup in terms of its importance.

Modern-day superstars such as Lionel Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo, Robert Lewandowski and Neymar have never lifted the World Cup, but each has celebrated Champions League glory.

Such are the tight margins between the top stars in Europe that Champions League success is often a key point of discussion when examining a player’s legacy.

A surprising number of top-tier ballers have failed to get their hands on ‘Old Big Ears’ since the European Cup was rebranded as the Champions League in 1992/93.

On that note, the folks over at FourFourTwo recently ranked the 15 best players never to win the Champions League and we’ve taken a look at their verdict below.

Some of these legends of the game couldn’t get over the line in the latter stages of the competition, while others simply weren’t part of sides that were quite strong enough to challenge for the trophy.

The Fiorentina legend only played in the Champions League with La Viola for one season. He moved to Roma at the age of 31, but never made it beyond the group stages in the Italian capital.

Crespo bagged two first-half goals for AC Milan in the 2005 final against Liverpool and must have believed he was 45 minutes away from a winners’ medal in Istanbul.

Unfortunately, the Reds had other ideas, completing a legendary comeback from 3-0 down to dash the Argentine’s hopes.

A runner-up with Arsenal in 2006, Fabregas failed to win the trophy in his three seasons at Barcelona.

A victim of unfortunate timing, he left Camp Nou for Chelsea in 2014. Barca would lift the Champions League the following year.

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